βουκράνιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From of βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “cranium, head”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /boː.krǎː.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /buˈkra.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βuˈkra.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vuˈkra.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vuˈkra.ni.on/
Noun
βουκρᾱ́νῐον • (boukrā́nion) n (genitive βουκρᾱνῐ́ου); second declension
- ox-head, bucranium
- black bryony (Tamus communis)
- Synonym: ἄμπελος μἐλαινα (ámpelos melaina)
- calf's snout (Antirrhinum orontium)
- Synonyms: ἀνάρρινον (anárrhinon), ἀντίρρινον (antírrhinon), κυνοκεφάλιον (kunokephálion), πῐθήκῐον (pithḗkion)
- fleawort (Plantago psyllium)
- Synonyms: κυνοκέφαλον (kunoképhalon), ψύλλιον (psúllion)
- (medicine) machine for reducing dislocations
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ βουκρᾱ́νῐον; τοῦ βουκρᾱνῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βουκρᾱ́νῐον tò boukrā́nion | τὼ βουκρᾱνῐ́ω tṑ boukrāníō | τᾰ̀ βουκρᾱ́νῐᾰ tà boukrā́nia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βουκρᾱνῐ́ου toû boukrāníou | τοῖν βουκρᾱνῐ́οιν toîn boukrāníoin | τῶν βουκρᾱνῐ́ων tôn boukrāníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βουκρᾱνῐ́ῳ tôi boukrāníōi | βουκρᾱνῐ́οιν boukrāníoin | τοῖς βουκρᾱνῐ́οις toîs boukrāníois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βουκρᾱ́νῐον tò boukrā́nion | βουκρᾱνῐ́ω boukrāníō | τᾰ̀ βουκρᾱ́νῐᾰ tà boukrā́nia | ||||||||||
Vocative | βουκρᾱ́νῐον boukrā́nion | βουκρᾱνῐ́ω boukrāníō | βουκρᾱ́νῐᾰ boukrā́nia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: būcrānium
- → English: bucranium
- → Italian: bucranio
Further reading
- βουκράνιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βουκράνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βουκράνιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)